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The first half of Thursdays Senate Select Intelligence Committees hearing on Russian disinformation campaignswasnt quite as fun as watching James Comey squirm his way around classified intel in the House, but it did provide some valuable context on Russian cyber methods and social media campaigns. The morning hearing lacked the […]

How did a former comedy writer and marketing executive wind up tackling the thorny problem of our politically fragmented modern society? For Daniel Ravner, the 41-year-old founder of The Perspective, the answer was in the last election. The concept is relatively simple basically create a media and opinion site that […]

Obituary: George Michael Image copyright Reuters Image caption George Michael performing at Wembley in 2007 Michael – whose full name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou – first came to fame in the 1980s as a member of Wham! alongside Andrew Ridgeley. The pair’s pop hits won them thousands of fans before […]

SelfScore will provide access to credit to international students without social security numbers.Image: Shutterstock SelfScore launched its first product last summer with relatively little fanfare: a credit card for international students. On Tuesday, it launched a new card with a much higher spending limit in a very different political climate. […]

He arranged to meet Mr Gregory at the shopping centre and took Dickson with him, and a fight led to Dickson becoming involved and placing Mr Gregory in a choke hold, officers said. Police said Mr Gregory was also kicked while he was on the ground on 4 October last […]

Heavy with fake news guilt, Facebook is rolling out new social channel benchmarking for publishers in the CrowdTangle tool it acquired and made free last year. CrowdTangle Intelligence lets news outlets compare their different accounts performance on up to five social accounts within any one social app, including Facebook, Instagram, […]